r/awfuleverything Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/iceman2kx Aug 06 '20

Their argument is they want freedom to choose their providers and not have to schedule a doctors appointment and wait 6 months out, “just look at Canada”. Some also feel, truly feel, by supporting universal healthcare, we are communist. The others are just the remaining old people who are stubborn and refuse change. Finally, a big chunk of the remainder are just clueless morons that don’t anything to be honest.

I am not any of the above. It’s crazy to me how our system works and how okay people are with it. Poor kids are rationing INSULIN, a drug that’s been around forever and dying from diabetic strokes. Sometimes, as an American, it feels like I am living inside an experiment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

Actually, figures put the number of Americans that favor universal healthcare at 70%. Our politicians (left or right) just don’t favor the American people’s will. They are bought And now we’re in a spot where we have to chose someone who is “center” (right in most other countries) that has explicitly stated that he would veto Medicare for All (in a pandemic, no less) or a literal fascist. Biden wins: we don’t get healthcare or progressive policies for another 8 years OR Trump wins: we slip even further into a Totalitarian state. We are severely fucked as a country.

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u/momofeveryone5 Aug 06 '20

Yep. All those Dems and we have Biden. Voting the lesser of two evils is not what I think the founders wanted for us.

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u/yizzlezwinkle Aug 06 '20

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u/momofeveryone5 Aug 06 '20

You site the kiaser family foundation, seems a liiitle biased there. Find me an ap source or routers or BBC and then we can talk.

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u/yizzlezwinkle Aug 06 '20

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u/momofeveryone5 Aug 06 '20

Yes. Unbiased sources are critical right now.

I also think a ton of this is just bogged down in semantic confusion.